According to the introductory video in section 20.2, whose assassination triggered
World War I?
A) Francisco (“Pancho”) Villa
B) Archduke Franz Ferdinand
C) David Lloyd George
D) William Jennings Bryan
Answer: B
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By the 1880s, what had happened to most southern farmers?
A) They were the wealthiest, most stable members of southern society. B) They specialized in growing cash crops such as cotton and tobacco and therefore were particularly vulnerable to the fluctuations of commercial agriculture. C) They had left the land to become industrial workers because western competition drove southern farms out of business. D) They had sold their land to northern speculators. E) They were self-sufficient because they reverted to subsistence farming.
President Bush's announcement that the United States would withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia and build a national missile defense system was an indication of which of the following?
a. George W. Bush was more sympathetic to his father's views on foreign affairs than to Ronald Reagan's. b. George W. Bush was a sly politician who, by refusing to be swayed by the criticisms of foreign governments, intended to win over the conservative Democrats he needed to push his agenda through Congress. c. George W. Bush was an independent thinker who was not going to be controlled by strong-minded members of his administration such as Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. d. George W. Bush wanted the United States to plot a unilateralist course in international affairs.
Prior to the Civil War, free blacks in the North tended to be
A. indifferent to slavery in the South. B. in favor of the "back to Africa" movement. C. strongly opposed to southern slavery. D. deeply antagonistic toward William Lloyd Garrison. E. anxious to leave the United States.
Which of the following people entered the mail-order business in the late nineteenth century?
a) Richard W. Sears b) Eugene V. Debs c) Henry Clay Frick d) George Engel